I can only show you the door. You are the one who has to walk through it.
Morpheus
What a terrible thing it is wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
Haruki Murakami
I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.
Voltaire
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature.
Albert Einstein
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have build against it.
Rumi
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles
And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.
Eleanor Cameron
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous... it fuels not postitive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness. Corrosive, it feeds off itself, destroying its host in the process.
Ursula K. Le Guin
In broad terms; success is something you spend your lifetime looking for and happiness is something you spend your whole life overlooking.
Rasheed Oguniaru
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Thomas Mann
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
Carl Jung
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
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